From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Allow psql to work against non-tablespace servers (e.g. |
Date: | 2004-08-18 01:44:44 |
Message-ID: | 4122B48C.4000509@dunslane.net |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>> At least we are guaranteed to compile against current libraries - apps
>>> outside the source tree never get that luxury and have worse
>>> compatibility problems. :)
>>
>>
>> The issue is that no one has been asking for this functionality, and I
>> can imagine it becoming quite a mess after a few releases.
>
>
> No messier than pg_dump (which yes, is quite messy :) )
>
>
It seems to me it will be a lot messier - pg_dump's functionality is
quite limited.
e.g. what will you do with dollar quoting or \copy's csv mode for
pre-8.0 backends?
cheers
andrew
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